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 ## Mirrors and Forks
 
-This repo is a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html).
+This repo is a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html), an
+editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings.
 Its immediate upstream is [text.love](https://codeberg.org/akkartik/text.love),
 a version without support for line drawings. Updates to it can be downloaded
 from the following mirrors: